Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48fca76e3acbdf6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB
MD5: 2486440d551cfab1208e31a20cd4b9e4 SHA-1: e84edef391fa43c2e0ec15ff027e21815187f2fb SHA-256: 48fca76e3acbdf6bde2a4ad9a75cd98028fbc22e256f0e77b2f0df778bc97258
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, leveraging XFA forms and embedded scripts to deliver a malicious payload. The presence of an embedded file and script payload indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The document body is truncated and does not provide further context on the lure.

Heuristics 6

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • XFA form contains executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose dataset contains a <script> or <xfa:script> block — XFA scripting has been the exploit primitive for several Adobe Reader RCEs (CVE-2010-0188 family, CVE-2018-4901, and others). Plain XFA without scripts is far less risky.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
3b446b03b257dcbd56009e3ab4c5209e98ebeee7f1d0e4c7b066de88e9977a44		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80367 bytes

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